71. Mr. Henry Courtney desires Mr. M. Hicks to get for him the Clerkship of the Signet, and he will give to Lord Burghley 100l. and to himself 100 angels.
92. The form of a recommendation, to be signed by Lord Burghley, of John Gerarde, as a fit person to plant the gardens of the University of Cambridge. Drawn up by Gerarde himself.
101. The copy of a letter to some unnamed person, and probably from Mr. Stubbs, as it is stated to have been written with the left hand; in which the writer laments his lost time for the space of forty years, and professes that his remaining comfort is in the Scriptures, &c.
98. Mr. M. Hicks's copy of his letter to a young Cambridge Student, whom he names not; tenderly chiding him for his incorrect writing, and directing his improvement.
106. Mr. B. Hicks, to Mr. M. Hicks; that as Lord Burghley's lease of land of the Mercers Company was near expiring, he, as Warden of the Company, would procure a renewal of it, if his Lordship pleased.
68. A note of Mr. Geo. Carey's suit to the Lord Treasurer; for a change of tenure in capite, of some small tenements in London, for that of free burgage.